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Litco Systems Inc., a Canadian company and leading provider of Document Process Automation, Business Intelligence (BI) and Agile Development solutions and City of Surrey Fire Service, today announced the launch of their Fire Department Operations and Staffing Dashboard.

The Challenges

This cooperative venture was driven by City of Surrey Fire Services need for instant visibility into operations and performance data and fast report generation. As a result, City of Surrey Fire Service was looking for an efficient analysis tool and turned to Litco Systems to translate their requirements into a dashboard that focused on their key performance indicators. Recognizing there were many other fire departments facing similar challenges, a collaborative development effort was undertaken to create a dashboard of interest to a broader audience.

Litco provided the application expertise to take our key performance indicators and create an application that is not only capable of analyzing our data, but was built on a platform that displays the data in a dashboard, providing a single solution for the end users. Karen Fry, Deputy Chief, Surrey Fire Service.

The Solution

City of Surrey Fire Service provided the industry expertise while Litco Systems provided the development expertise to create the Operations and Staffing dashboard. This dashboard will enable fire departments to analyze call performance, response times, inspections and property data, personnel absences and staffing levels; while allowing Administration staff to quickly and effectively report on the key performance indicators within an organization in a real-time system. Easy to create and simple to modify, the template saves time and provides insight into an organizations data. The template will enable fire departments to meet their accountability requirements and use evidence based decision making strategies based on information collected. Data can be deployed up and down the chain of command to Operations staff who can then measure their teams performance. The graphical presentations make it easier for all levels of users to understand. Fire Departments will be able to analyze data quickly and dynamically, drilling down to focus in on specifics when required. The underlying product, QlikView, allows the dashboard to be integrated with the systems and databases in use at other fire departments. Additional dashboards can be developed to analyze other business areas as required.

QlikView looks at all your various databases simultaneously and provides you with a customized view of all your data in one application. It allows me to quickly monitor the key performance metrics on a daily basis. This is a powerful and efficient tool for any manager! Larry Thomas, Deputy Chief, Surrey Fire Service

About City of Surrey Fire Service

City of Surrey Fire Service provides fire suppression, fire prevention, medical aid, rescue services, hazardous materials response and education services to the municipalitys 472,000 inhabitants. It is the second largest fire department in British Columbia with 17 fire halls and over 400 employees. City of Surrey Fire Service also provides dispatch services for 34 other fire departments across British Columbia. As one of the quickest growing municipalities in Canada, City of Surrey Fire Service is a modern, progressive fire service that is led by evidence-based decision-making.

About Litco Systems Inc.

Litco Systems Inc. is a Canadian company and a leading provider of Document Process Automation, Business Intelligence (BI) and Agile Development products. Litco delivers solutions that automate manual processes, improve the flow and access of information, provide insight into data from disparate systems and allow rapid building and management of business applications. Litco Systems philosophy is to provide superior products that integrate with existing systems, implement quickly with the least disruption, and offer fast ROI. Litco Systems Inc., founded in 1987, is a premier business partner of Bottomline Technologies Inc., Business Geographic, Mendix and QlikTech Inc. and has offices in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

For more information about the Operations and Staffing Dashboard, please contact Lisa Banducci, Business Development Manager, E-mail: lisab(at)litcosys(dot)ca, Tel: 604.942.6121. For information about other solutions offered by Litco Systems Inc., please visit http://www.litcosystems.com.

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Klipfolio today announced the release of version 1.10 of Klipfolio Dashboard for web and mobile, available now by logging into https://app.klipfolio.com. This release added two important data connectors, Salesforce and internal servers (using SFTP/FTP). By setting up access to these data sources, users can create real-time web and mobile accessible dashboards, along with data sources like SQL databases, Google Analytics, and Facebook. Klipfolio has also announced two new tools for its REST connector: the ability to specify header parameters, and the ability to specify POST requests.

Version 1.10 comes on the heels of version 1.9, Klipfolio’s most significant release for its web and mobile BI dashboard since the end of Beta. Version 1.9 redefined the self-service KPI editing platform, introduced two new KPI templates, and added support for using LinkedIn as a data source. These releases represent the maturation of Klipfolio Dashboard for web and mobile.

“The latest version to hit the web clearly demonstrates that this company is in it for the long-haul,” wrote Bill French, founder of IPADCTO. “And with a heritage that dates back to 2002, it seems obvious from their newest improvements, I might still be writing about them in 2022.”

About Klipfolio Inc.

Klipfolio develops Klipfolio Dashboard the KPI Dashboard to help the Fortune 1000 increase the visibility of key performance indicators for informed decisions that improve performance and profitability. Klipfolio Dashboard is the only enterprise dashboard that presents information where it’s always visible and actionable. Clients include Intel, Staples, Aviva, Baxter Healthcare, and Lufthansa.

11/22/2012 – SEO Services Australia, a leading Australian SEO service provider, announces the launch of its new client dashboard. In line with the companys commitment to provide every client with solutions that work, the rollout of this new platform allows partners to offer top-of-the-line services to end users. Fully customisable and easy to set up, the new dashboard takes customer self-service to the highest level.

Easy, Straightforward Setup

SEO Services Australia took careful steps to ensure the new client dashboard is easy to configure. Partners do not have to worry about technical functions, as configuration takes three simple steps. The program leads users through an easily navigable process that takes just under ten minutes.

The first step involves theme modification, allowing partners to create a dashboard that is truly theirs. Clients can add their company logo, name, and URL to the dashboard for full and accurate brand representation. The second step is where clients can add their white label dashboard, including particular pages and packages from SEO Services AU. It is also here that web marketing partners can adjust mark-up prices and feature pages such as proposals and reports, packages, and other relevant customer support material. The final step involves adding client websites and the creation of unique accounts for all end users. This then becomes the platform for end users to access the white label dashboard.

All Access, All the Time

The quick setup enables SEO Services Australias partners to offer wide-ranging solutions to end users. This includes important details about every aspect of the campaign, including keyword performance, ranking updates, and traffic sources. The platform allows for an easy restructuring of processes to streamline campaign management for everyone involved.

About SEO Services Australia

SEO Services Australia is a premier provider of internet marketing and professional SEO services. Equipped with extensive experience in the industry, the company aims to help its growing client base achieve top ranking and performance through a wide variety of expert solutions. With the launch of its advanced dashboard for clients, SEO Services Australia aims to make the reselling process as seamless as possible for all retail partners. The company is dedicated to helping every client with all aspects of the process for improved business and increased returns on investment. Clientele serviced by the company are of different sizes, and from a wide range of industries.

Visit http://www.seoservices.com.au for more information about their products and services.

Intown Web Design (http://www.intownwebdesign.com) released their first of a series of guides to help Google Analytics users build their own Site Overview Google Dashboard. The release of this guide comes along side a Google Analytics update that allows users to share dashboards with each other.

Intown’s Web Design’s information covered in the guide gives people the opportunity to use the dashboard as a template for their own site. Intown Web Design came up with several ways of viewing different metrics and statistics to present relevant site information about site usage and history.

The guide points out several different elements of the Google Dashboard that are called Widgets. The guide goes through each of the main widget showing how to create them.

Using design that is easy to read and graphics that are easy to follow, Intown Web Design hopes may visitors will find the tutorial useful. Steven Johnson, Owner of Intown Web Design, said, “With this new feature release of Google Analytics, we found the shareable dashboards to be so helpful we created this post to help our team, clients and anyone else that want to get more information about their website. As we develop new dashboards we plan to write up the process and share it on our blog.”

About Intown Web Design (http://www.intownwebdesign.com) — Located in Atlanta, Ga, they are a web design and development firm with a focus on creating functional websites for business. Clients range from startups to corporations traded on the NYSE. Founded in 2007, with a specialty in open source technologies including PHP, Joomla and WordPress. They have continued to expand their expertise into improving site performance, usability and search engine rankings.

A new plugin for WordPress displays tracking data from Google Analytics, WordPress and MailChimp, all integrated together into a single WordPress dashboard. The plugin is provided free of charge by MailChimp and can be downloaded at the wordpress.org plugin directory . A MailChimp account is not required to access the Google Analytics information.

The Analytics360 Plugin provides a comprehensive view of a blog’s performances, allowing publishers to quickly identify which posts are enjoying the most inbound traffic whether from web site referrals or by email. The traffic-over-time chart shows when a post was published or an email campaign was sent in relation to the numbers of site visits, giving a clear view on cause and effect.

Google Analytics is rich with information. This plugin accesses the most relevant information for a blogger and displays it in an actionable way. For example the plugin displays all blog referral sources and provides a drill down path showing the most popular posts. The plugin also includes a world map. Hovering over a country shows the number of blog visitors from that country. Analytics360 provides real-time access to both Google Analytics and MailChimp allowing for instant date range changes.

“Bringing WordPress and Google Analytics together is like mixing peanut butter with chocolate. A natural fit and prefect to the tastes of power bloggers,” says Ben Chestnut, Co-Founder of MailChimp. “We use both applications heavily and wanted to share our tools with the blogging community at large.”

MailChimp supports email for many blogs with a free RSS-to-Email option that updates subscribers whenever a new post is published. MailChimp also developed a simple to install WordPress plugin to manage email list signups.

The Analytics360 plugin was developed for MailChimp by Crowd Favorite using the Google visualization toolset for rendering the dashboard charts. The plugin will work in the self-hosted versions of WordPress including the multi-user version.

In order to take advantage of this plugin, subscribers need to be running Google Analytics on their WordPress site already. Then all they have to do is download and install the Analytics360 plugin and enter their MailChimp and Google Analytics login info. MailChimp takes care of the rest.

About MailChimp:

MailChimp, a leading do-it-yourself marketing service, provides tools to over 80,000 small businesses, design agencies, non-profits, restaurants, and e-Commerce organizations worldwide. Customers can create professional, eye-catching HTML emails in minutes with easy-to-use web based tools. MailChimp offers a completely free account for users with 100 subscribers or less, and for larger accounts offers two affordable pricing programs: monthly and pay-as-you-go.

Best known for allowing collaborators to distribute messages across multiple networks including Twitter, Facebook, and WordPress, the newest iteration of social media dashboard HootSuite features tools for managing audience and tracking campaigns. The tools will be of particular benefit to marketing departments and customer support teams.

The new tools will be of particular interest to marketing departments and customer support teams by helping to:

Know your Audience – Consider this a “Social CRM” tool as you’ll learn who follows you, and know who they are in a Friends and Followers chart – view profile, influence and activity level at a glance, and quickly engage to build relationships

Answer Efficiently – Create an archive of stock responses and “save as drafts” to plan your work and standardize common replies for customer support

Track Success – Examine click-through rates on messages, examine time and region breakdowns, and export as CSV for custom reports, or PDF for printing

This software release follows on the heels of recent noteworthy announcements from HootSuite Media, Inc. including adding funding partners, releasing HootSuite for iPhone, and winning Mashable’s “Open Web” award for Best App, plus a variety of articles in major media outlets.

HootSuite President Ryan Holmes says, “In the last update, we added WordPress, URL previews, and trending topic details, but we didn’t rest in the nest. With the new version, marketers can hone tactics with deep campaign tracking and reporting tools. Further, the friends and followers charting features will help everyone build the relationships which make social networking tools so useful.”

The release also coincides with an improved customer support process to encourage fans to request features, find solutions, and learn best practices for promotional outreach campaigns. The HootSuite team are inviting media and users to attend a brief Webinar on Tuesday at 11am PST to learn about key benefits of the new release.

Launched in Dec. 2008 by Invoke Media, HootSuites rapidly growing user base includes governments, artists and organizations like The White House, Martha Stewart Media, SXSW and Zappos. Accolades include awards from Mashables Open Web, Canadian New Media, and Shorty Awards.

HootSuite announces addition of Foursquare and MySpace to the social media dashboard. The release comes just in time for SXSW – the massive interactive media, film and music conference in Austin, Texas.

HootSuite began as a professional Twitter client and evolved into a powerful social media dashboard which allows users to manage and update multiple profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, WordPress.com, Ping.fm and more. With the addition of these two unique networks, HootSuite users can easily spread the word about their favorite hot-spots plus bands and filmmakers can update fans – all from a familiar web interface.

Mayor of the Nest

Foursquare combines way-finding, social marketing and gaming in an addictive mobile app which encourages everyday socialites to “check in” at cafes, bars, conferences, and other locations to alert their friends, share tips and even become “mayor” of a location. Additionally, using HootSuite, travelers can easily follow recommendation from locals when visiting other cities. This location-based tool also creates a unique marketing opportunity for businesses who seek valuable word-of-mouth advertising and endorsements from regular customers.

Bands, Meet Fans

MySpace is the first stop for fans and artists to discover, connect and communicate. Consistently in the top dozen websites, MySpace is home to an abundance of creatives – from bands to filmmakers. With HootSuite, the hundreds of bands playing at SXSW can easily outreach to fans about gig locations, surprise shows and new song releases. Likewise filmmakers can quickly rally attention across networks for screenings and release dates. Fans can also spread the word about noteworthy bands or movies to build buzz – or to just make their friends jealous – all from the HootSuite web dashboard.

Tools for Marketers

Today’s release includes a powerful addition of default settings to custom URL parameters which were added in HootSuite’s “Barn Owl” release (Feb. 15, 2010). This feature helps marketing and customer service teams track campaign results by adding unique referral identifiers. The release also includes a variety of bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Bar-B-Q and Apps in Austin

Following the Android and iPhone App launch on March 2, HootSuite coordinated this release with the 23rd annual SXSW conference – a massive gathering of web tech, media and artists in Austin, TX which frequently acts as a launch pad and test bed for new media products and services. The HootSuite team will be on-the-ground keeping an eye out for users updating Foursquare and MySpace with HootSuite and sharing swag specifically designed for the culture of the conference.

Connect with HootSuite on the road by following @HootUp and/or the #hootsxsw hashtag for meet-ups, demos, prizes and photo ops with the Owl mascot.

HootSuite announces a choice of URL shorteners in the social media dashboard — Ow.ly is now a fully redirected URL without a frame, and the newly-added Ht.ly will present the link with the social bar allowing easy Re-Tweets and sharing. Both Ow.ly and Ht.ly options include full statistics, storage for photos and files, malware protection, and 1-click messaging with the Hootlet tool.

In the character-limited web of micro-updates, instant blog posts, and status messages, URL shorteners have grown from a simple utility to a critical tool for a variety of reasons ranging from vanity URLs to click-through statistics.

Popular social media dashboard tool HootSuite allows users to update Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks from one web interface, and lets users shorten links using the built-in Ow.ly URL shrinker. Using Ow.ly to manage URLs provides businesses and organizations with important statistical analysis to see which Twitter messages generate clicks-throughs.

The links were/are presented with an opt-out “social bar” which provided options to Retweet, spread to more networks, add a rating, search Twitter, view popular links, and more. With changing desires in the marketplace, HootSuite now offers users a choice of URL shorteners — Ow.ly will change to simply a fully redirected URL without a frame, and the newly-added Ht.ly, which will continue to present the link with the social bar.

Fully-Loaded or Lightweight

Both Ow.ly and Ht.ly options include full statistics, including accurate click-throughs (with bot filtering), custom date ranges, regional breakdowns, and exportable reports. Further, both options include handy storage for photos and files, which you can easily attach to Twitter messages.

Ht.ly with the social bar is best suited for marketers seeking to amplify their messages by encouraging users to spread links across social networks and share with friends. Ow.ly is best suited for users who just need the basics — a short link and statistics.

Fast, Reliable & Safe

Ow.ly is among the top 5 most used URL shorteners on the web and rated as a top performer. Technology industry news source, TechCrunch, in a study with Pingdom.com, rated Ow.ly as top choice of URL shorteners: “When both the reliability and speed rankings are combined, ow.ly and bit.ly tie for first place overall …” Research bureau Watchmouse keeps real-time status charts for popular URL shorteners and verifies Ow.ly’s performance as well as worldwide usage trends.

Further, Ow.ly and Ht.ly also prevent dissemination of shortened URLs that disguise nasty, suspicious links by checking URLs with the Google Malware/Phishing list and present web surfers with a warning message when a page is suspected to contain harmful scripts or scams.

Custom Short URLs

Up next, HootSuite will be adding the Ow.ly Pro service to provide custom URL shorteners for businesses who purchase “vanity” URLs. These URLs can reflect company branding through creative domain names like many major web brands.

For example, Twitter recently announced the addition of a custom URL shortener twt.tl, Google also uses a custom goo.gl (from Greenland) which also creates QR codes, WordPress uses wp.me, and Facebook uses fb.me (both .me URLS are from Montenegro).

The URL shortening trend has created an interesting business opportunity for domain name providers who market the two-character codes from far-flung countries – such as: .im (Isle of Mann), .tv Tuvalu, .fm Federated States of Micronesia, and .ly Libya – to companies seeking memorable and short branded domain names.

Cyfe, a new startup aiming to simplify business analytics for small businesses is out to disrupt the business intelligence market. Let’s face it, small businesses and existing business intelligence solutions don’t mix well together. They are either too technical for the average user or too expensive for a small business budget.

Market research shows that businesses spend up to 80% of their time collecting data and creating reports. Cyfe has developed a cloud based service that solves this problem by allowing them to easily monitor and share all of their vital business data from one single location in real-time. It’s drop dead simple (what used to take days now takes seconds) and absolutely free to get started. Small businesses have a lot of things on their plates already. Cyfe wants to simplify their lives and help them be more productive by providing them with an all-in-one business dashboard.

Cyfe is not another business intelligence solution, it’s a command center for SMBs. It’s poised to become Salesforce for the analytics industry.

About Cyfe:

Cyfe is out to disrupt the business intelligence market by simplifying business analytics for small businesses. It’s a web-based platform that helps companies bring all their business data into one single location in real-time. Allowing them to spend their valuable time on making better business decisions instead of wasting it on analytics and reporting. For more information about the company or to access the Cyfe platform, visit Cyfe.com.